Portfolio > Together and Apart: 51 Paintings from Quarantine

It’s easy, in light of an unprecedented global event, to curl up at home and let emotions—fear; anxiety; anger—cast a fog over the once-vibrant edges of our lives. Easier still to let this fog turn to lethargy, to “when this finally ends I’m going to …”

And maybe it’s this realization that has me filming videos and prepping panels, that’s punching a hole through isolation’s wall. So I paint, and I film it in time-lapse, and in my own minuscule way, I help shave away at the stodgy definition of ‘Quarantine’ that our world has imposed upon itself. The videos invite fellow exiles into my process. An alien spore materializes first, beneath the first set of brushstrokes: the virus (because, duh).

Subjects change—now a friend’s photo, posted on Facebook; now a snap from my daily walk—but the topic stays the same. Many exiles have reached out, some of whom I haven’t spoken to in decades. They say my sped-up phantom-hand and its product brightens their day. They say that alone in their homes, they feel like they’re “right there.”

Now I look over these panels and see nothing but contradiction: isolation as participation; social distance as emotional proximity; quarantine as togetherness.


Click on price if interested in purchasing a painting. All works are available when the show closes. No price signifies that the piece is sold.

Coronavirus Covid 19
oil on panel
9x9
2020
Poppy
oil on panel
12x12
2020
Monarch Butterfly Painting
oil on panel
12x12
2020
$225
Grasshopper  insect painting
oil on panel
12x12
2020
$225
Grasshopper Sparrow Painting
oil on panel
12x12
2020
Birthday Cake Painting
oil on panel
12x12
2020
Maritime Pines in Rome
oil on canvas
14x11
2020
$250
Bevagna Italy Painting
oil on canvas
14x11
2020
$250
Mountain Lake Painting, Lago del Salto, Italy
oil on canvas
14x11
2020
$250
Bevagna Italy Painting
oil on canvas
11x14
2020
$250
Umbria Italy Painting
oil on canvas
10x8
2020
Road to Foligno with Poppies, Italy painting
oil on canvas
10x8
2020
$175
Maritime Pines, Pini Maritimi, Via Cristoforo Colombo, Rome, Painting
oil on canvas
10x8
2020
$175
Peanut Eating Popcorn, Cockatiel painting
oil on panel
12x12
2020
Espresso Cups Painting,Caffe
oil on canvas
2020
Espresso Cups Painting,Caffe, Sant Eustachio
oil on canvas
8x10
2020
Espresso Cups Painting,Caffe, Cappuccino, Painting
oil on canvas
8x10
2020
$175
Espresso Cups Painting,Caffe, Nero Caffe
oil on canvas
8x10
2020
Painting of Hand, Mannequin Hand, Precarious Balance
oil on panel
12x9
2020
$250
Hand Shake Painting
oil on panel
12x12
2020
$250
Hand Shake Painting
oil on panel
12x12
2020
$250
Hand Shake Painting, Shadow Hand
oil on panel
12x12
2020
$250
Hand  Painting, Bird Shadows Painting
oil on panel
12x12
2020
$250
Hand Shadow Painting
oil on panel
12x12
2020
$250
Gloved Hand Painting, Rubber Gloves
oil on panel
12x12
2020
Bloodroot painting, Spring plants
oil on panel
10x8
2020
Skunk Cabbage painting, Spring plants
oil on panel
10x8
2020
$175
Bloodroot painting, Spring plants
oil on panel
10x8
2020
Spring flowers, spring plants, painting
oil on panel
10x8
2020
 painting, Spring plants
oil on panel
10x8
2020
$175
fern painting spring plants
oil on panel
10x8
2020
Earth Mandala
Photograph
12x12
2020
$50
Water, Land, Sky Mandala
Photograph
12x12
2020
$50
Time Travel Mandala
Photograph
12x12
2020
$50
Spring flowers painting Columbine, pink flower
oil on panel
12x12
2020
$250
Spring flowers, spring plants, painting
oil on panel
12x12
2020
$250
Spring flowers, spring plants, painting, tulips, orange
oil on panel
12x12
2020
Spring flowers, spring plants, painting, Tiger Lily, yellow
oil on panel
12x12
2020
$250
Spring flowers, spring plants, painting, Blue Columbine
oil on panel
12x12
2020
$250
Shadow hand shaking painting, Together Apart
oil on panel
12x12
2020
Hand hearts, cloud hearts, painting
oil on panel
12x12
2020